Natural variation in stress response is related to post-stress parental effort in male house sparrows

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 936-942

  Lendvai, Ádám Z ^a,b   Chastel, Olivier ^b  

^a Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding; Glucocorticoids; Hormones; HPA axis; Parental investment; Passer domesticus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPARROW; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CORTICOSTERONE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPARROWS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78349306095     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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